Rehearsals Begin
With a script in hand, thanks to a few translator experts, including a local poet Seán Ó Leocháin, we finally have reached the stage the children are most excited about - rehearsals. This is where the experience of having staged numerous productions in the past comes in - students were on hand to suggest facial expressions, tone, emphasis, stage directions, props, even lighting and sound effects. This creative process happened very organically as rehearsals progressed.
As facilitator, I realised early on that if you encourage suggestions early on and are seen to value and implement them, the children feel empowered and make better and better suggestions.
As facilitator, I realised early on that if you encourage suggestions early on and are seen to value and implement them, the children feel empowered and make better and better suggestions.
Once the children became familiar with the lines, it was time to begin gathering costumes. Suggestions for celebrity costumes, hairstyles and make up were made. Children brought items from home and made suggestions for recycling costumes we had used for other productions e.g. the jungle backdrop (AN DUFAIR) was redesigned from a play we staged in 2012.
The set for the 1916 scenes needed to be designed and painted.
Remember this is all for a play to be performed as Gaeilge in a school that is not a Gaelscoil.
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